The Bully Pulpit (Audio book) - Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of

Informationen zum Autor Doris Kearns Goodwin’s work for President Johnson inspired her career as a presidential historian. Her first book was Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream . She followed up with the Pulitzer Prize–winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II. She earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals , in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln , and the Carnegie Medal for The Bully Pulpit , about the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Her bestselling Leadership: In Turbulent Times was the inspiration for the History Channel docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, which she executive produced. Her most recent book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s , provides a front-row seat to the pivotal people—JFK, LBJ, RFK, and MLK—and events of this momentous decade. Klappentext Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the 'muckraking' press Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money men and big business. Zusammenfassung Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Time s ! The Washington Post! The Economist! Time! USA TODAY! Christian Science Monitor! and more. “A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue” (Associated Press). Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era! that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft—a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912! when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives! their children! and their closest friends! while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party! causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected! and changing the country’s history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press! which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons! corrupt politicians! and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine—Ida Tarbell! Ray Stannard Baker! Lincoln Steffens! and William Allen White—teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure. Goodwin’s narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt’s death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another! kept journals! and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt! who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft! provide an intimate view of both men. The Bully Pulpit ! like Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II! exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history—an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals. ...

Product details

• Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Doris Kearns/ Herrmann Goodwin
• Assisted by: Edward Herrmann (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 05.11.2013
• EAN: 9781442353152
• ISBN: 978-1-4423-5315-2
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education